HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Outlawed by Amazon DRM (bekkelund.net)

1445 points by paulsilver on Oct 22, 2012 | 479 comments

2.

The Future of Markdown (codinghorror.com)

877 points by dko on Oct 25, 2012 | 328 comments

3.

Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers (jwz.org)

688 points by icey on Oct 11, 2012 | 96 comments

4.

HN Spoof (us2.campaign-archive1.com)

681 points by norswap on Oct 6, 2012 | 82 comments

5.

Tell HN: Let's Be Civil

671 points by raganwald on Oct 27, 2012 | 138 comments

6.

Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution (plus.google.com)

633 points by orjan on Oct 31, 2012 | 327 comments

7.

Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes (googleblog.blogspot.com)

603 points by cleverjake on Oct 29, 2012 | 456 comments

8.

Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others (status.aws.amazon.com)

602 points by fredoliveira on Oct 22, 2012 | 295 comments

9.

Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)

590 points by ashishgandhi on Oct 10, 2012 | 119 comments

10.

Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on. (apple.com)

588 points by sjtgraham on Oct 5, 2012 | 194 comments

11.

Xkcd style graphs (mathematica.stackexchange.com)

585 points by bussetta on Oct 1, 2012 | 51 comments

12.

The Most Revealing Job Interview Question (refer.ly)

578 points by kevin_morrill on Oct 4, 2012 | 235 comments

13.

Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket (blog.bitbucket.org)

569 points by weslly on Oct 9, 2012 | 286 comments

14.

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org (thenextweb.com)

526 points by feronull on Oct 8, 2012 | 159 comments

15.

Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong (foundersatwork.com)

518 points by nswanberg on Oct 25, 2012 | 88 comments

16.

Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it (ektomarch.com)

515 points by fiblye on Oct 22, 2012 | 145 comments

17.

How cork is made (wineanorak.com)

514 points by shawndumas on Oct 18, 2012 | 120 comments

18.

Chrome DevTools could do that? (igvita.com)

514 points by lysol on Oct 4, 2012 | 74 comments

19.

The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't (mina.naguib.ca)

508 points by LiveTheDream on Oct 28, 2012 | 63 comments

20.

Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups (blog.ryankearney.com)

501 points by RKearney on Oct 6, 2012 | 169 comments

21.

Are Those Spidery Black Things On Mars Dangerous? (npr.org)

491 points by kaffeinecoma on Oct 3, 2012 | 118 comments

22.

Verizon is Selling Your Personal Data (alpha.app.net)

478 points by morewillie on Oct 9, 2012 | 125 comments

23.

How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole (wired.com)

477 points by trendspotter on Oct 24, 2012 | 101 comments

24.

TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development (typescriptlang.org)

474 points by D_Guidi on Oct 1, 2012 | 298 comments

25.

Scott Forstall leaves Apple (apple.com)

470 points by FredericJ on Oct 29, 2012 | 313 comments

26.

Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. (thewaltdisneycompany.com)

470 points by antr on Oct 30, 2012 | 290 comments

27.

Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office (techcrunch.com)

464 points by hornbaker on Oct 23, 2012 | 212 comments

28.

Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app (selfstarter.us)

463 points by ccamrobertson on Oct 11, 2012 | 74 comments

29.

No, I still don't want to work for Google (infotrope.net)

460 points by chris_wot on Oct 29, 2012 | 396 comments

30.

Is the use of “utf8=✓” preferable to “utf8=true”? (programmers.stackexchange.com)

459 points by tomse on Oct 18, 2012 | 87 comments